Creating a Rails App

Learn about Rails app setup, developer workflow, and key considerations for security and production configuration.

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The following command is pretty powerful. It immediately creates a ready-to-go Rails application but doesn’t completely set us up for sustainable development.

rails new

We know a few things about our app right now:

  • Other developers will work on it and need to be able to set it up, run its tests, and run it locally.

  • It will eventually have security vulnerabilities (in our code and in our dependencies).

  • It will be ...